MEDFORD, MA (February 7, 2025) -- The Tufts University women's squash squad will look to get back to the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) title match for the fourth straight season, as the Jumbos head to Trinity College for the 2025 NESCAC Championships this upcoming weekend.
Game Details
Championship Website
Date: Saturday-Sunday, February 8-9, 2025
Location: Hartford, Connecticut - Trinity College –
Ferris Athletic Center
A Look At The Championships
The Jumbos will start the weekend as the No. 2 seed, taking on No. 7 Bates College in the quarterfinals at 2:00 pm on Saturday afternoon. The Jumbos (8-6) battled Bates College last weekend on January 31, knocking off the Bobcats 7-2 in play from the Tufts Squash Center.
Tufts has won seven of its last eight matches coming into the weekend, and on the season has won 54 percent of its matches. The team has been paced by its senior class, as
Nieve Monderer has been strong at every spot she's played in the lineup to the tune of a 9-4 record. The nine wins are a team-best, while classmate
Aleezah Burhan has tallied eight wins while posting three straight victories.
Jumbo top player
Vharsha Dinesh has been riding high of late, as the junior has a team-best six match winning streak coming into the tournament. Dinesh has gone 7-4 on the season at the No. 1 position. Sophomore
Maria Arsenieva has won four straight matches and is 7-5 this season for Tufts, while senior
Riddhi Joshi is playing her best squash of the season with wins in her last four.
First-year
Anika Parr and classmate
Mia Kim have gone 4-0 this season in spot duty, while
Anika Goyal is 6-6 on the year for Tufts.
Trinity College is the top seed, as the Bantams have won every NESCAC crown since 2007, all 17 of them. The Bantams are currently ranked No. 2 in the nation, while Tufts is No. 11 and the No. 2 seed in the tournament. No. 3 seed Amherst College is ranked No. 13 in the nation, and will battle No. 17 and six-seed Bowdoin College. The No. 4-No. 5 match will feature No. 14 Williams as the fourth seed and No. 16 Middlebury College as the No. 5 seed.
Semifinal action will start Sunday, February 9 at 9:00 a.m. with the winners of the No. 3/No. 6 and No. 2/No. 7 matches with the finals with the two remaining teams being at 4 p.m. Sunday evening.
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